Sentences with phrase «on longer school days»

(The National Education Association does not have an official position on longer school days, only that the process should be carefully planned and collaborative.)

Lhota's top priorities, he said, would include improving education with the introduction of new teaching methods, more tablets and a conversation on longer school days and years, creating jobs and maintaining public safety and quality of life.

Malcolm Trobe, interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, commented on the longer school day saying: «While we welcome any additional funding for schools, the reality is that the government has already made savings by requiring schools to pay increased employer National Insurance and pension contributions from existing budgets.

The union had vowed to strike Monday if there was no agreement on a new contract, even though the district had offered a 16 percent raise over four years and the two sides had essentially agreed on a longer school day.

Not exact matches

One example: Old - school fluorescent lighting could be replaced by LED lights that can easily change color throughout the day to reflect subtle changes in the sky outside, like those lights on many airliners now that simulate dawn, midday, and dusk for long - distance travelers.

As long as you have a valid email address on file and at least one unsubsidized loan, we will send you a quarterly email while you are in school detailing the amount of interest that accrues each day on your loans.

Let's say you are a school teacher and one day you decided that we never landed on the moon and no longer accepted the codes of conduct you signed on the day of your hiring and just say heck with that I'm going to do my own thing.

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

One public school recently took kids on a field trip to a Christian festival and left all the other kids on campus in a day long study hall.

I believe she is refering to the very Vocal Churches and Christians who have for 30 years been hollaring and screamin about the issues of prayer in public schools abortions and the anti- gay verbage we been hearing for so long... nearly every day somthing is beign said on these issues you must be mr. van winkle..

Growing up in Edinburgh, I have distinct memories of going to school as the street lights went off and them coming on again on my way home, and we didn't have particularly long school days.

I spoiled them a long time ago by making breakfast for them on school days.

After a long day of freezing in school (I am telling you the classrooms are like 40 degrees and then some kid comes strolling in, declares they are so hot, opens all the windows and turns the fans on.

I signed up for a month long community education pottery class to bring me joy (even if I am terrible when it comes to clay), I attend yoga class twice a week to clear my head, and I have plans to see a movie on a Tuesday, when seats are cheap and I have school the next day.

As he got older (even high school) my son would attempt to recreate famous buildings with legos on those LONG days without access to technology.

Ultimately, children and young people will go on to make their own decisions about what they eat, but as long as schools offer students the opportunity to think, discuss and debate the issues as well as to cook and eat good vegetarian food, a weekly meat free day provides them with the knowledge and experience with which to make informed, responsible and compassionate choices.

My 3 children aren't allowed to graze on food all day long, but they do come home from after - school sports dying of hunger -LRB-!).

I had been depending on these bars to get me through long days at school, so I knew they would be an essential snack once the baby was born.

In a head to head race that ended in one of the most spectacular sprint finishes we saw all season long Trevor McCutcheon from Great Oak High School took 1st on the day to win the Series Overall over Turner Conway (2nd) from Redlands Composite.

I had enjoyed the long stretch of napping mid-day, waking up without an alarm on days when I did not have to take the kids to school, and staying up super late to write when inspiration strikes.

We felt it was important enough for the kids» health and ability to focus that they not be hyped up on sugar and caffeine all day long, but it did come at a financial cost, and we did not have the cushion of community dollars to fall back on; some schools lost extra curricular funding because of it and have yet to fully recover.

it is true that some injuries in contact and collison sports are inevitable, but at the rate youth and high school ice hockey was going, it wouldn't have been too long before it was considered one of the «extreme sports» that are so popular on television these days; you know, the ones where, after the big crash or fall, the show cuts to a commercial and, when it comes back, the seriously injured participant has already been stretchered off to a waiting ambulance.

If it's been too long since you've acted like high school sweethearts (even if you never were high school sweethearts), all puppy love, pecks on the cheeks and piggyback rides, then build an imaginary time machine and reproduce some of the dates from your early courting days.

The Thanksgiving holidays remind us that many children rely on the food they receive during the school day, and long breaks often mean extended periods of hunger.

Schools chief Jean - Claude Brizard upped the ante later in the evening on WTTW's «Chicago Tonight,» saying he would be willing to give elementary school teachers a 2 percent raise this year if it means the district could implement a longer school day this year rather than waiting until next year.

However, as was expected, the interim final rule states that an item sold on a cafeteria snack bar line is exempt from all of the nutrition standards we've been discussing above, so long as those foods are «sold on the day that they are offered as part of a reimbursable meal, or sold on the following school day.»

Leavers parties at play school, a long summer break, lots of trips to town to buy uniforms and school shoes followed before Leo finally had his first day of primary school on 11th September 2017.

Bw1 — we can have theoretical debates all day long on the proper role of government but it's a simple fact that the National School Lunch Program isn't going anywhere.

Chicago Public Schools is launching a new website — www.cps.edu/longerday — to get citywide input on how to implement a longer school day.

The schedule which permits a food as long as it's been on the school menu within the past four days means there will be [pizza / fries] served every day in every school.

Most schools will be supportive of your child going to work with you, as long as the day doesn't fall on a field trip or big test.

Some days I avoid burnout by going to yoga, taking the dog for an extra long walk, having one more cup of tea, pouring over some textile or fashion books on the couch, making myself a lovely little lunch, meeting my son after school for some ice - cream, and having a great family dinner in the evening.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel began pushing for a longer school day while he was on the campaign trail, saying Chicago's school day is the shortest in the nation when compared to public school systems in nine other large cities.

Some kids find it difficult to stay on top of homework after a long school day.

Trustee Charles Hendrickson wondered why such a long time period was needed, as the ban on street parking near Buffalo Grove High School runs only from 7:30 to 10 a.m. schoolSchool runs only from 7:30 to 10 a.m. schoolschool days.

And that was with an hour - long bus ride on both ends of the school day.

Not only do they fall off the wagon after being in school all day long, doing homework is also the last thought on their minds.

There is a long two - hour lunch break in French schools, and while this makes the day longer (maybe too long) for the kids, on the other side, the children have a good break in the middle of the day to eat their lunch slowly and digest afterwards in the recess area (French law states that children must sit at the table for a minimum of 30 minutes).

Short days during school, longer days in summer and on breaks.

Students of a Long Island middle and high school are now required to wear clear backpacks on campus as part of a new safety measure in the wake of the Valentine's Day mass shooting that left 17 dead in Florida.

All other special elections require a 45 - day notice as long as there are no school elections scheduled on the same day.

Students of a Long Island middle and high school are now required to wear clear backpacks on campus as part of a new safety measure in the wake of the Valentine's Day mass shooting that left 17 dead in Florida, an official confirmed to The Post.

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN)- On the day after a long - awaited contract between the Buffalo Teachers Federation and city school district was ratified, the documents are now available for all.

Carl Paladino was the last to testify in what was a long and at times grueling four days of proceedings before State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia — a hearing that was supposed to center on whether the two - term Buffalo School board member should be removed for violating board policy when he publicly disclosed information discussed in an executive session.

This provides Cash with more power to enforce contract changes, such as a longer school day, but a legal fight appears to be on the horizon.

The outgoing majority took a hard - line approach, bringing in a tough attorney from downstate to place demands on the table such as a longer school day and changes to the teachers» health plan.

A brief stint teaching troubled students at schools in Brooklyn and on Rikers Island convinced Mitchell of the need for strong schools — he advocates longer school days and tougher tenure rules — as well as more jobs and after - school options for youth.

The honorees will share a $ 500,000 prize and will be recognized at a day - long symposium on Oct. 5 at Harvard Medical School.

Unlike most girls in high school, I had no interest in makeup or fashion, was raised on a commune, where organic veggies was the main concern of the day; therefore, it made sense that upon entering high school, thrifted baggy jeans and long, untrimmed hair was not a fashion statement — it was a lifestyle.

Fitness all day long Brader Elementary, Delaware This school keeps active, from a.m. three - minute exercise routines to cycling on stationary bikes in the library and common learning areas.